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This article examines the ways that a group of US pre-service teachers expressed and challenged each other's contradictory discourses about teaching for social justice. Particularly significant are the many ways that this group of students enacted subject positions around race and sexuality as various combinations of African American, White, gay, straight, lesbian, Christian, and as members of this class. This research demonstrates the ways that social justice teacher education differentially positions people who have been historically marginalized and how it can at times reify a hierarchy of marginality.

The purpose of this study was to foster critical understanding of institutional oppression among pre-service teachers . Hence, this article describes the use of an institutional inquiry assignment for pre-service teachers at a large state university in the US. Data were collected from one hundred and six pre-service teacher candidates enrolled in a cultural diversity course. The analysis of the data examines the useful aspects as well as the limitations of this assignment for helping to engage in teaching for social justice.